'Wall Street Week' Sans Rukeyser

Updated April 11, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET

It was disappointing to read Tunku Varadarajan's April 1 Leisure & Arts commentary "TV: Wall $treet Weak -- Money and Markets Are a Snooze on PBS Sans Mr. Rukeyser; 30 Years of Urbane Insouciance" and the continued misrepresentation of facts surrounding the departure of Louis Rukeyser from our program.

Over the past several years, it had become clear that there was a need for refreshing and reinvigorating "Wall Street Week," which had not seen significant change over the past 30 years. No television...